Children of Heaven

Children of Heaven, when I first saw the title of this movie I was expecting something completely different than what i actually saw. Before I even saw this movie I had kind of decided that I hate this movie. The title just made seem like I was going to hate this movie. Well after I actually saw the movie I can say that I was kind of wrong about it. It was not perfect but it was a decent film. The films plot is pretty simple, Ali takes his sister Zahra's shoes to get them repaired but on the way back he leaves them lying around and they get misplaced. When he gets home he doesn't want his parents to find out so he makes a deal with this sister that she can use his sneakers to go to school and when she comes back from school she will give it to Ali and then he will go to school. The film from then on basically follows Ali and Zahra trying to live with the arrangement and trying to keep their parents from finding out. At the end Ali joins into this race so that he can get in third place and win shoes for Zahra. Ali tries his hardest to try and get into third but one of the other racers trip him and he loses. The film ends with Ali returning home to give Zahra the bad news, not knowing that their father is coming home with new shoes for Zahra.

One of the themes that is prevalent throughout the film is love. Ali loves his sister Zahra a lot and feels terrible that he lost her shoes. Out of love, and also some fear of his father, Ali lets his sister wear his shoes to school. Not only that Ali decides to run this grueling race just so that Zahra could have shoes of her own. Also when Ali is talking to his father about new shoes he makes sure to tell him that he should get shoes for Zahra before he gets some for himself. Ali is very caring for Zahra in this movie and it is evident throughout the film.

As for what I thought about this film, well I thought it was just OK. I didn't hate it like I thought I would but I didn't love it either. A lot of the parts in the film dragged and a good portion of the film could have been cut. I thought that the whole scene with Ali and his father gardening was way too long and could have easily been shortened. I couldn't really say that I can recommend this to anybody but I could see how some people may like this film, as it is a nice story of two siblings trying to live in a difficult situation.